#Lynn Breedlove

[cellulardreams]

tribe8 by Constintina Trainwreck Via Flickr: @ The Knitting Factory 1997(?)

[bog-dwelling-butch]

The more I see lesbians who are anywhere under the trans umbrella the happier I am.

Since reading Stone Butch Blues at the start of this year,

Since following a bunch of they/them, he/him, she/they/he, nonbinary, trans, butch lesbians on here,

And watching a few interviews by Lynn Breedlove of Tribe 8,

I just feel like home, people like me exist, and people like me have existed for a while! I don't have to debate my identity with anyone, I just *am* some queer, gender-weird butch dyke 🌈

And if you don't like it: goodbye, don't bother me.

[marz-mania]

"I'm a feminist and I'm a dyke and I fucking hate men and I'm a man. I identify as a dyke and as a guy. People are pissed off about that because they want you to pick a side. Really, my choice isn't about you. I don't tell you to lop your tits off, and you don't get to tell me that I can't be a dyke and a guy."

- Lynn Breedlove, lead singer of Tribe 8 and The Homobiles

[pg13judaskiss]

I don't care if we never fuck again. I just want to watch her ascent and disintegration, because anything burning that bright one day must consume itself and float away, an ash, and no one has the power to stop it. It's flirting with disaster to love someone that much, someone who's always on the brink of going away. I know she doesn't need saving, but I dream of saving her, of rolling a rock up the mountain and being flattened by it as it rolls back over me all the way to the bottom again. And then I push it right back to the top, because if it takes this much sweat it must be worth it.

Obsessed with angels, she's divinely twisted. She builds neon-winged sculptures, and in black ink she scratches out demonic, sunken-eyed, jowly, pear-shaped angels that she thinks look like her, with bat-wing claws. She doesn't see what we see when she looks at herself.

godspeed, by lynn breedlove (2002)

[girlteuthis]

[theatreofthelivingmind]

Thing is, just this week, I came across queer core. I was doing some research and it turns out I was at a spoken word event for a queercore singer, Lynn Breedlove.

Sigh, I wish I had found queercore sooner. But it's never to late to try? Would love a queer core band where I could do music and performance.

"scenecore" "emocore" "gothcore" God please stop we don't need a core after everything..... scene, emo, and goth are already subcultures with their own fashion/aesthetics PLEASE

[goodluckclove]

man it's crazy how many lesbian musicians and writers i was super into ended up coming out as some variety of trans. mal blum. lynn breedlove from tribe 8, apparently. eileen myles. i remember feeling an odd unease at noticing this pattern. i thought to myself why do all the lesbian artists i really relate to end up being trans?

oh man, crazy. why would that possibly be the case?

[ghostlyerlkonig]

In these trying times of getting a weird handful of terfs in my askbox about my gender suddenly, I think of this.

[mxbitters]

“YEAH MY HAIR’S PINK!!!!!! I’M THE MISSING LINK!!!!!! YOU DON’T HAVE A MISSING LINK BATHROOM!!!!!!!”

[cellulardreams]

Tribe 8 '02 by Daniela Capistrano

[mercymornsimpathizer]

a non-exhaustive list of butch literature

a (very ad-hoc) list of butch reading and writing, (mostly) by butch authors. books I've read myself in bold; take the rest with a grain of salt. additions, addendums, and commentary welcome :)

(you can find my list of femme literature here)

general/literary fiction:

mrs s by k patrick

stone butch blues by leslie feinberg

boulder by eva baltasar

running fiercely towards a thin high sounds by judith katz

tipping the velvet by sarah waters

a crystal diary by frankie hucklenbroich

godspeed by lynn breedlove

cha-ching! by ali liebegott

the ihop papers by ali liebegott

greasepaint by hannah levene

lucy and mickey by red jordan arobateau

the bull-jean stories by sharon bridgforth

development by bryher

notes of a crocodile by qiu miaojin

america is not the heart by elaine castillo

the slow fix by ivan coyote

the swashbuckler by lee lynch

old dyke tales by lee lynch

sci-fi, fantasy, and horror:

gideon the ninth by tamsyn muir

the unspoken name by ak larkwood

vermilion by molly tanzer

metal from heaven by august clarke

scapegracers by ha clarke

the unbroken by cl clarke

fire logic by laurie marks

the seep by chana porter

these burning stars by bethany jacobs

feast while you can by mikaella clements and onjuli datta

non-fiction, memoir, and autobiography:

hijab butch blues by lamya h

gender failure by ivan coyote and rae spoon

fun home by allison bechdel

butch is a noun by h bear bergman

female masculinity by jack halberstam

burning butch by rb murtz

when we were outlaws by jeanne cordova

leaving isn't the hardest thing by lauren hough

odd girls and twilight lovers by lillian faderman

another mother tongue by judy grahn

boots of leather, slippers of gold by elizabeth lapovsky and madeline davis

the persistent desire ed joan nestle

persistence: all way butch and femme ed ivan coyote and zena sharman

dagger: on butch women ed lily burana

[mesothrax]

punk rule

(people/bands from left to right in no particular order)

Laura Jane Grace, Lucian Kahn, Joey Steel (I think), Tom Gilbert, G.L.O.S.S., Emma Grrrl, Sydney Dolezal, Elijah (Human Kitten), Donnie Walsh, Lynn Breedlove, Zac Xeper, Size of Sadness guitar player (if you know their name please let me know), and Alexia Roditis (ty @ha--eul for the correction)

[punkunited]

I have been asked for more Queer punk bands. So gladly I present a band called TRIBE 8 All-women outspoken lesbian punk band from San Francisco, California, USA active in 1991–2005. Considered one of the first queercore groups, their songs often deal with subjects such as S/M, nudity, fellatio, and transgender issues, and the band was the subject of controversy because of this.

Leslie Mah - Guitar

Lynn Breedlove - Lead Singer

Jen Rampage - Drummer

Mama T - Bass

[snailobituaries]

Phoebe Bridget this Boy Genius that… why don’t you go look up what Lynn Breedlove and Tribe 8 were doing on stage in 1997 and then we can talk 👍

[dootsnaps]

"I’m a feminist and I’m a dyke and I fucking hate men and I’m a man. I identify as a dyke and as a guy. People are pissed off about that because they want you to pick a side. Really, my choice isn’t about you. I don’t tell you to lop your tits off, and you don’t get to tell me that I can’t be a dyke and a guy. That is just as repressive as any of the bullshit that we’re rebelling against." - Lynn Breedlove

[girldickdotcom]

im so obsessed w lynn breedlove rn